Courses in Asian American Studies

Asian American Studies by us, for us.

Towards a vision of opening access to Asian American studies beyond the academy and supporting the livelihoods of critics, scholars, and teachers in our community, Asian American Literary Archive offers Asian American literature-related classes to the public on a periodic basis.

Summer 2024 — Introductory

Asian American Studies for Now

with Ida Yalzadeh

Past Courses

[Fall 2023] Foundations of Asian American Studies with Ida Yalzadeh
[Summer 2022] Foundations of Asian American Studies with Ida Yalzadeh

Our Course Levels

  • Community

    Community courses are occasional courses offered at the Archive. They can be one-off lectures or workshops that offer an introductory look into one facet of a discipline for students of all levels.

  • Introductory

    Introductory courses are meant to equip beginning students with historically major debates, theories, and skills for a given discipline. They provide a basis of knowledge for students to pursue study of subfields and comparison in other disciplines.

  • Intermediate

    Intermediate-level courses assume knowledge of major principles and debates in a given discipline. These courses build on these basic ideas to deepen students' granular knowledge of that field and introduce them to contemporary questions and comparative studies in that field.

  • Advanced

    Advanced courses build the array of interdisciplinary and deeper thinking achieved at the intermediate level. These courses dive deep into a particular intersection or topic for further study.